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I just bought an Aeropress and just used it for the first time - amazing! Wanted better coffee than my cheapo drip, and, I wanted my counterspace back (I have a REALLY small kitchen). I really can't believe how good the coffee is. Plus I can travel easily with this.
I considered a Keurig but I don't like that you can't recycle the K-cups, and some scientist said they end up with biofilm in the water chamber (ugh).
I've heard that the newer Keurigs, you can recycle the K-cups.
I'm a big fan of the aero press as well. You definitely extract different flavors due to higher pressures and get the high pressure extract without an expensive machine. I'm starting to like it even better than a French press.
For espresso, nothing beats a standard Italian stove top espresso maker. The nespresso or other k cup like machines are terrible. K cup machines cost exorbitantly more for inferior coffee.
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I can't have a coffee-maker! I buy them and put them in storage!
If I have them I drink coffee all day! Not good for me ....so
I use my simple French presses...I have 3 now, diff sizes...ground my beans
fresh...and yum. Better than having a whole pot sitting there.
I pour the grounds, stirred with water since they are packed down so hard,
in my garden...is it the potassium? I dunno, but my flowers are bigger that way.
PS I just saw on PBS we are drinking our coffee too dark...we should try
a medium roast to get better flavors...ok...
I ended up buying a very fine conical mesh filter, some paper filters to go into it, and I just boil water in my tea kettle and pour it over the grounds in the filters.
Simple. Nothing really to clean. I just run water over the mesh after use. It's a little slow to use, because I have to pour slowly, but I am in no real hurry.
I must admit my friend does this exactly and I always have the best cup at her house.
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I like my cusinart coffee machine. I like that it keeps the coffee hot. I have a Keurig too but by the time you add cream the coffee is cold. Is mine defective or does it just not get as hot as a Cuisinart brewer.
I like my cusinart coffee machine. I like that it keeps the coffee hot. I have a Keurig too but by the time you add cream the coffee is cold. Is mine defective or does it just not get as hot as a Cuisinart brewer.
There is nothing magic about K-cups, it's just a pre-measured scoop sealed in a filter pod. The problem is the cheap K-cup machines don't heat the water hot enough and it needs to brew the coffee in secs.
You need to get a better K-cup machine that heats water quicker and hotter. Then it becomes an expensive Mr.Coffee machine.
There's nothing hard about brewing coffee using a regular 2-3 cup brewer and using a paper or gold filter. You save a lot of money and don't have to stock all those K-cups.
I just have no interest in a Keurig (I also think it's not true that you can recycle them now). It's no more work for me to make a little more coffee with my Mr. Coffee than it is to make one cup of coffee with a Keurig...in fact it's less work.
I've abandoned my Aeropress after only one week of use. I'm just too tired in the morning to deal with precise measurements and timing, ha. My results were really inconsistent - that first cup I made was fabulous, but some of the others weren't - it also seems to use double the coffee ($$$) and the plunging was hurting my arthritic wrist. I'll still use it for travel because it's genius for that, but drip coffee it is.
Recycling is not the solution to our landfill problem, creating less landfill is.
And, I was replying to the person who didn't think they could "recycle" the K cups - the newer ones, anyways.
If we do recycle, it is creating less landfill, because the recycle part is being used elsewhere and not necessarily in the landfill.
IF you want to talk about less landfill, perhaps you should get on about people's constant use of such things like Always using Pampers, when they could be using diapers when at home, etc. Yes, we can all learn to curb back throwing stuff away but when things don't work - the only answer, some people and the manufacturers say "throw it out" because they no longer have the work force, desire or schematics, to fix the item.
My coffee maker finally went kaput and now I'm in the hunt for a new coffee maker.
I didn't have anything fancy, had a Mr. Coffee and I was good.
I'm looking but many have mixed reviews.
There is no brand in particular I'm looking at, just give a good maker and I'm set.
At least 12 cups and I think I want a self cleaning one... that's what I've had so that's
what I'm used to.
I think I like the BUNN I'm reading that you need BUNN filters as the store filters aren't tall enough?
Anyway, for you that know more, what's your coffee maker?
Is there another one I should look into?
Thanks!
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Help me choose a coffee maker??
